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techcrunch.com

Investors demand more revenue from Facebook, and Sheryl’s got just the APIs to give it to them. Over the last two days, three major ads tech partners have revamped their products with recently released Facebook APIs that allow brands to track and optimize for on-site conversions including app installs, buy home page...

thenextweb.com

AlertMe, the smart home tech company has sealed a deal with British Gas to provide a personalised energy efficiency advice service to UK customers with smart meters. So, The Jetsons‘ home of the future is not so far away after all. Smart meters are a replacement for traditional gas meters...

gigaom.com

In the past year, several startup accelerators have popped up around the country to give health tech entrepreneurs access to funding, mentors and other kinds of support. But a program launched this week in New York is taking an interesting new approach to encouraging digital health innovation. Backed by the...

www.guardian.co.uk

Chief executive defends Google Glass and slams sector's 'negativity and zero-sum games' in speech to Google I/OThe Google co-founder Larry Page spoke out on Wednesday about the "negativity" he believes is holding back the technology industry, a day after revealing that he has been suffering from a rare vocal-cord condition...

paidcontent.org

The concept of selling digital ads is basic enough — offer up a piece of screen and invite brands to buy it. But for publishers, the ad tech industry can feel like a mix of quantum physics and witchcraft. Instead of simple transactions between publisher and buyer, digital ad sales...

gigaom.com

Given all the attention Amazon gets when its US-East data centers fall over, it’s only fair to point out that Rackspace had its own stumbles last week, most revolving around its new “next-generation” cloud servers and its Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) data center. In a statement posted at 6:06 EST on...

pandodaily.com

There’s a Silicon Valley startup expanding into New York City this weekend and aiming to disrupt one of its powerful industries. Yet most people inside the world of startups wouldn’t be able to name it. And unlike the waves made recently by bad actor Uber, there’s no current of...